Read Edit View history 纸上谈兵 zhǐshàngtánbīng idle theorizing Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 纸上谈兵 (紙上談兵) zhǐshàngtánbīng idle theorizing idiom engaging in impractical or theoretical discussion that is useless in actual practice; literally planning military tactics on paper Frequency Movie subtitles 0.480 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.836 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
纸上谈兵 (紙上談兵) zhǐshàngtánbīng idle theorizing idiom engaging in impractical or theoretical discussion that is useless in actual practice; literally planning military tactics on paper Frequency Movie subtitles 0.480 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.836 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)